Bob Hope

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

I have the greatest supporters in the world. By the way they’re the smartest, they’re the hardest working, they pay taxes.

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

John McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

[Mexico] ripping off the US more than almost any other nation

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

The disappearance of the Soviet Union is one of a number of factors that had the effect of essentially eliminating Third World voices. As long as [it] was there, two big gangsters parading around, there was some space for independent forces, there was room for non-alignment.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

I know words. I have the best words.

The Thirteenth Amendment formally ended slavery, but a decade later “slavery by another name” (also the title of an important study by Douglas A. Blackmon) was introduced. Black life was criminalized by overly harsh codes that targeted black people.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The educational system was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of ‘private affluence and public squalor’. Funding for public education has sharply declined. Tuition has exploded, leading to a plague of unpayable student debt.